Articles filed under Horse Racing
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Former Arlington Park marketing chief appointed to racing boardFeb 24, 2023 12:00 am - Arlington Park's former marketing director has been appointed to the Illinois Racing Board. Alyssa Ali Murphy, currently director of marketing for @properties, was chose...
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Jim O'Donnell: Online series about Arlington Park auctions is Kleenex reading for someFeb 05, 2023 4:30 am - AS A GENERAL RULE, autopsy reports are not recommended reading for the "Headspace"/meditation crowd. And some might say that Patti Davis did not produce merely a summary...
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Jim O'Donnell: Churchill Inc. moving Arlington Million from Kentucky to Virginia - but why?Dec 25, 2022 12:00 am - BEFORE THE MAIN BUILDING at Arlington Park is taken down, Bunker Bill Carstanjen and cohorts at Churchill Downs Inc. may want to sift through all of the cinders on the m...
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Jim O'Donnell: 20 years later, Arlington's 'Fix Six" Breeders' Cup scandal still resonatesNov 13, 2022 5:30 am - THEY HELD THE 2022 BREEDERS' CUP last weekend at churchly Keeneland in the once-bucolic countryside of Lexington, Kentucky. On NBC, the crescendoing races of the floral-...
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Waubonsee professor appointed to state racing boardNov 01, 2022 1:00 am - A Waubonsee Community College professor and one-time Arlington Park employee has been appointed to the Illinois Racing Board. Patricia Saccone, who worked as a security ...
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While Bears evaluate Arlington Park, Hawthorne readies for casino constructionSep 23, 2022 1:00 am - Sunday marks the anniversary of the final day of horse racing at Arlington Park, which is now being liquidated as the Chicago Bears continue their due diligence on a pen...
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O'Donnell: With "Louisville Million," Churchill Inc. dissed the legacy of Dick DuchossoisAug 17, 2022 1:00 am - CHURCHILL DOWNS INC. HAS a market capitalization that touches $8 billion. That's a nice number for a corporation that specializes in little more than gaming pies in the ...
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Italian beef at Churchill Downs? 'Chicago-style' Arlington Million is back, but in KentuckyAug 12, 2022 5:00 am - With Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches on the menu, Churchill Downs Inc. is reprising Arlington Million Day this Saturday at its namesake racetrack in K...
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Some Arlington Park artifacts will be displayed around town, but not this statueAug 06, 2022 1:00 am - Churchill Downs will be keeping iconic Million statue
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O'Donnell: 4th and longing at empty Arlington - but group is chasing a lease to race in 2023Jun 29, 2022 1:00 am - A FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND at Arlington Park once meant energy, excitement and anticipation. "And all them 'chiropractics' up in the sky," as malaprop-prone TV jockey Gerr...